Word: flamingos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trip to Las Vegas is enough to restore your faith in the old values. LADIES MUST WEAR BATHING HATS AND SWIMSUIT TOPS, reads the sign by the Flamingo Hotel pool. Where else in the U.S. can you still find big bands, a 49? breakfast, and a bellhop who says: "Why don't you just relax, sir, while I unpack your bags?" How many other cities the size of Las Vegas (pop. 290,000) can boast 143 churches and 159 Boy Scout troops...
...fans really want to unbutton is their emotions. "That's as far as it goes," he insists. "If I really went after a girl in the theater, I'm sure she'd run a mile." These days, some people find that hard to believe. At the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, Jones launched into / Want a Woman, and a chic brunette leaped atop a table and offered herself. Part of the act? Perhaps. Another woman tossed her room key onto the stage. If that was part of the act, her husband knew nothing about it: red-faced...
...gold records in the past two months. His weekly TV show on ABC is clobbering the competition as a summer rerun. For his two-week engagement at Manhattan's Copacabana in May, the lines began forming as early as 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The Flamingo paid him $280,000 for four weeks, and he paid them back by selling out every concert...
...leading whore house in Portau-Prince is the Flamingo, where the girls are black, but the guests are white and American...
...honesty of their dealers. Private detectives and closed-circuit TV monitoring of the tables are standard practice. But the second crackdown, and its attendant publicity, sent tremors of anxiety through the Nevada casino world. "We have a fortune tied up in the business," said an executive of the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. "What's the percentage in risking it all-for no reason at all-when we can protect our investment and make a very nice return on it just playing it straight...